“azeotropic”

We have one entry that includes the term azeotropic.

azeotropic distillation

noun

: distillation involving the presence of a compound that forms an azeotrope with at least one of the components of a liquid mixture which can thereby be more readily separated because of the resulting increase in the difference between the volatilities of the components of the mixture


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